With MacOS 8.5 came a very cool app called Sherlock. Sherlock is extremely powerful and lets you search your own drives, plus the web at amazingly fast speeds. The only problem is, the capitalist pigs made it so when you view a website's description you get a stupid ad. I found a quick way to hack this so you don't get the annoying ad. First you'll need the following:
1. bbedit lite
2. resedit or equivalant
3. sherlock plug-in to hack.
First step is to open the plug-in in bbedit lite. Just go to file, open, and for the file-types, use 'choose any file'. Find your plug-in, it is in the internet search sites in the system folder. Now, for an example I'll use excite's plug-in that comes with every copy of sherlock. The code will look like this in bbedit lite:
Ignore the top stuff, what we'll concentrate on is all the stuff between the <interpret> tag. Look for the
bannerStart="</table>"
bannerEnd="</center>"
tags, and erase them. Thats it, now the banners won't show up!
Now, save as something like 'excite hacked'. After thats all done with quit out of bbedit and load up resedit or resourcer. Open your hacked plug-in, and click on "get info for bla bla" where 'bla bla' is the name of the file you opened. Now change the type to 'issp' and the creator to 'fndf'. Once that is done, save your changes in resedit and load up sherlock to search the web without annoying banners!